Data Engineer | AWS, Python & Snowflake | Ridgefield, CT (Hybrid) | $140K–$185K

🧠 Data Engineer

📍 Location: Ridgefield, Connecticut (Hybrid – 2–3 days onsite per week)
💼 Openings: 2
🏢 Industry: Information Technology / Life Sciences
🎓 Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field (Master’s preferred)
🚫 Visa Sponsorship: Not available
🚚 Relocation: Available for the ideal candidate
💰 Compensation: $140,000 – $185,000 base salary + full benefits
🕓 Employment Type: Full-Time | Permanent

🌟 The Opportunity

Step into the future with a global leader in healthcare innovation — where Data and AI drive transformation and impact millions of lives.

As part of the Enterprise Data, AI & Platforms (EDP) team, you’ll join a high-performing group that’s building scalable, cloud-based data ecosystems and shaping the company’s data-driven future.

This role is ideal for a hands-on Data Engineer who thrives on designing, optimizing, and maintaining robust data pipelines in the cloud, while collaborating closely with architects, scientists, and business stakeholders across the enterprise.

🧭 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and integration frameworks to enable advanced analytics and AI use cases.

• Collaborate with data architects, modelers, and data scientists to evolve the company’s cloud-based data architecture strategy (data lakes, warehouses, streaming analytics).

• Optimize and manage data storage solutions (e.g., S3, Snowflake, Redshift), ensuring data quality, integrity, and security.

• Implement data validation, monitoring, and troubleshooting processes to ensure high system reliability.

• Work cross-functionally with IT and business teams to understand data requirements and translate them into scalable solutions.

• Document architecture, workflows, and best practices to support transparency and continuous improvement.

• Stay current with emerging data engineering technologies, tools, and methodologies, contributing to innovation across the organization.

🧠 Core Requirements

Technical Skills

✅ Hands-on experience with AWS data services such as Glue, Lambda, Athena, Step Functions, and Lake Formation.
✅ Strong proficiency in Python and SQL for data manipulation and pipeline development.
✅ Experience in data warehousing and modeling (dimensional modeling, Kimball methodology).
✅ Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD practices for data solutions.
✅ Experience integrating data between applications, data warehouses, and data lakes.
✅ Understanding of data governance, metadata management, and data quality principles.

Cloud & Platform Experience

• Expertise in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – AWS preferred.

• Knowledge of ETL/ELT tools such as Apache Airflow, dbt, Azure Data Factory, or AWS Glue.

• Experience with Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other modern database systems.

Education & Experience

🎓 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field
💼 5–7 years of professional experience in data engineering or data platform development
⭐ AWS Solutions Architect certification is a plus

🚀 Preferred Skills & Attributes

• Deep knowledge of big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Flink) is a strong plus.

• Proven experience troubleshooting and optimizing complex data pipelines.

• Strong problem-solving skills and analytical mindset.

• Excellent communication skills for collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.

• Passion for continuous learning and data innovation.

💰 Compensation & Benefits

💵 Base Salary: $140,000 – $185,000 (commensurate with experience)
🎯 Bonus: Role-based variable incentive
💎 Benefits Include:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage

• Paid vacation and holidays

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Wellness and family support programs

• Flexible hybrid work environment

🧩 Candidate Snapshot

• Experience: 5–7 years in data engineering or related field

• Key Skills: AWS Glue | Python | SQL | ETL | CI/CD | Snowflake | Data Modeling | Cloud Architecture

• Seniority Level: Mid–Senior

• Work Arrangement: 2–3 days onsite in Ridgefield, CT

• Travel: Occasional

🚀 Ready to power the future of data-driven healthcare?
Join a global data and AI team committed to harnessing the power of cloud and analytics to drive discovery, innovation, and meaningful impact worldwide.

Data Engineer - USA, Connecticut - $90,000 to $120,000

Data Engineer

USA, Connecticut

$90,000 to $120,000

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Associate Director, Information Technology, the Data Manager/Data Analytics is responsible for overseeing the development and use of company data systems and guaranteeing that all information to and from the company runs timely and securely. They will also effectively identify, analyze and translate business needs into technology and process solutions. This position can be based out of Westlake Village, CA/Marlborough, MA/Danbury, CT.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Works with other team members and business stakeholders to drive development of business analytics requirements.

• Leverages knowledge of business processes and data domain.

• Brings deep expertise in data visualization tools and techniques in translating business analytics needs into data visualization and semantic data access requirements.

• Works with various business units to facilitate technical design of complex data sourcing, transformation and aggregation logic, ensuring business analytics requirements are met.

• Leverages enterprise standard tools and platforms to visualize analytics insights, typically working with and/or leading a small team.

• Regularly monitor and evaluate information and data systems that could affect analytical results.

• Translate business needs to technical specifications

• Design, build and deploy BI solutions (e.g., reporting tools)

• Manage integration tools and data warehouse.  

• Manage and conduct data validation and troubleshooting

• Create visualizations and reports according to business requirements

• Monitoring and enhancing databases and related systems to optimize performance.

• Proactively addressing scalability and performance issues.

• Ensuring data quality and integrity while supporting large data sets.

• Debugging and resolving database reliability, integrity, and efficiency.

• As a member of the IT organization at MannKind Corp. the incumbent is also expected to be customer focused, a problem solver, a communicator, professional, willing to learn, organized and a team player.

• Duties and responsibilities are not limited to the work listed above and may include other assignments as necessary.

Education and Experience Qualifications:

• BS/BA Degree with minimum 3-5 years related experience in data management or analysis.

• 3+ years of experience with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS)

• 3+ years of Business Intelligence / Analytics related work experience in challenging environments

• Strong understanding of modern data modelling techniques

• Strong understanding of Cloud services providers (AWS, Google, Microsoft) and how to architect solutions around them

• Ability to decipher and organize large amounts of data.

• An analytical mindset with superb communication and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to translate complex problems clearly and in nontechnical terms.

• In-depth SQL programming knowledge - partitioning, indexing, performance tuning knowledge, stored procedure, views

• Hands-on experience in developing dashboards and data visualizations using BI tools (e.g.  PowerBI, Tableau)